Books: One Man's Paris

France may have changed in ten years but not the French. Not, at least,
in the Rue de la Huchette, a short, crowded Left Bank street that runs
parallel to the Seine. Peripatetic Novelist Elliot Paul ought to know.
He lived there, off & on, for 18 years before the war, came back to the
U.S. and wrote his bestselling The Last Time I Saw Paris (TIME, April
27, 1942).

Returning to Paris last spring, Paul made a beeline for the Rue de la
Huchette, like a man taking up again with an old but...